Friday, November 27, 2009
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m
Chairman: Marc Fumaroli
- Marc FUMAROLI, Académie française, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, founder of Respublica literaria - République des Lettres (CNRS, UPS 3285)
"From the Respublica literaria of the humanists to the Republic of Letters of the 20th century: a politics of the mind?"
- Jean-Luc BARRÉ, historian, director of the "Bouquins" collection, Éditions Robert Laffont
"Philippe Berthelot, Aristide Briand and the New Europe"
- Antonio GARCIA BERRIO, Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
"Jorge Guillén between Madrid and Paris, the poetic generation of 1927"
- Gabriel DE BROGLIE, of the Académie française, Chancellor of the Institute
Les rencontres européennes de la Schlittenbach à Saverne, 1920-1925
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Chairman: Oswyn Murray
- Jean-Michel GUIEU, Senior Lecturer, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
"French intellectual elites in support of the League of Nations"
- François AZOUVI, Director of Research at the CNRS, Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
"Henri Bergson at the League of Nations"
- Jacques LE RIDER, Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)
"Europe according to Hugo von Hofmannsthal, from the First World War to 1929"
- Ulrich RAULFF, Director of the Deutschen Literaturarchivs Marbach
"Dreamer of the Reich, realist of exile: Hubertus Prinz zu Löwenstein and the poetic sources of resistance"
Saturday, November 28, 2009
9:30am - 12:30pm
Chairman: Michel Zink
- Éric ROUSSEL, Director, Institut Pierre Mendès-France
"At the origins of European construction: Aline and Émile Mayrisch"
- Jean-Jacques RENOLIET, Doctor of History
"The League of Nations and intellectual cooperation (1919-1939)"
- Michel JARRETY, Professor at Paris IV Sorbonne University
"The "Entretiens" of the League of Nations (1932-1938)"
- Sabina BECKER, Professor at the Deutsches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
"Im Wartesaal der Republik": Crisis diagnosis and social criticism in the work of Lion Feuchtwanger"
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Chairman: Antoine Compagnon
- Jean-François SIRINELLI, Director of the Centre d'histoire de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (Sciences Po)
"Raymond Aron: pacifism put to the test of history"
- Oswyn MURRAY, Professor, Oxford University
"Gilbert Murray's repentance
- Nicole RACINE, Director of Research at the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (Sciences Po)
"Benjamin Crémieux and the French PEN Club"
- Jean-Louis JEANNELLE, Senior Lecturer, Université Paris IV Sorbonne
"Julien Luchaire: international cooperation and literary nationalism"
- Antoine COMPAGNON, Professor at the Collège de France, Director of Respublica literaria - République des Lettres (CNRS, UPS 3285)
"Continuation or end of the Republic of Letters?
